What’s a story without a villain in it? Ballet Manila knows this only too well. In decades of presenting full-length productions and short choreographies, the company has had its share of heroes and heroines – and their counterpart bad guys and gals to battle against and triumph over. We focus the spotlight on these rogues who have made the jump from fairy tales, children’s stories, and epic poems to ballet adaptations, unapologetically revealing their wily and wicked selves on the stage:

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